The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-02
Pascal Porter, OF Jefferson County, Ind.
the Marvel of All who Hear Him.

the Marvel of All who Hear Him.
is it simply wonderful feat of mem
orizing or is it inspiration? is the ques-
ton every one who has heard Pascal
Porter, the boy preacher, is asking, This
prodigy is product of Jefferson county,
and Is not eleven years old. When not
in the pulpit he is the most ordinary of
ordinary boys, possessing nothing that
would distinguish him from hundreds of
other boys seen Throughout the county.
In fact, the Cursory observer would place
him below the average of Indiana boys
While in state of rcposc he is listless
with duIl.lOoking eyes and cXprcssionIess
countcnance. He walks with an awk.
ward, stumbling gait, not appearing to
notice those things which generally at
tract the attention of boys of his are
Placed with any dozen boys of his neigh
borhood, and he would be chosen out as
the stupid one of the lot. Yet this awk.
ward country boy, with his stumbling
gait, listlcss air and dull look, is one of
the wonders of this century. He is u
preacher, and the leading preacher of his
peculiar sect, and if his sermons are his
own production, he is the leading preach
or IN Indiana, Of any denomination. lie
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